There's a sort of inside joke in the online business space of coaches, creators, and service providers. Or maybe, at this point, it's an "outside joke?"Q: What's the surest way to make more money as a creator or small business owner?A: Teach other people

This cancerous economic principle means that executives and venture capitalists have abandoned the concept of value within a business. Through decades of corporate greed, production has become almost entirely separated from capital, meaning that executiv

Todays quick episode is a sample of something Im creating for paid subscribers to What Works. Im calling it my This is Not Advice column. Or, TINA for short. Not to be confused with TINA a la there is no alternativeif you know, you know.Paid subsc

What does a bad movie from 1992, loss aversion, Steinbeck, pizza, farm animals, and the founder of a software company have in common? Well, youll find them all in this episode.This episode will take you places. I dont want to spoil it. So suffice it to

I am on board when it comes to technological progress. I look forward to updating my devices (although I dont do it as frequently as I used to). New apps and features excite me. Im pretty quick to adapt to change.I am not a Luddite. Or so I thought.T

It seems like every company today claims to be "on a mission" to change the world or improve our lives. They bill themselves as social movements more than profit-driven enterprises. It sounds nice. But how does it really function in the lives of workers?

At least in my corner of social media, there are a lot of folks asking what makes a business ethical. Or, perhaps more accurately, there are a lot of folks answering that question.And there are probably even more folks worried that theres something unet

This Earth Month... buy more stuff?!We're about to be bombarded with messaging about corporate climate initiatives. We'll have the chance to buy merch to "support" the planet. And we'll be incentivized to spend more so that a small portion can be donated

"All parasites have value, Sibling Dex. Not to their hosts, perhaps, but you could say the same about a predator and a prey animal. They all give backnot to the individual but to the ecosystem at large." Mosscap, in A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky

Ive called myself a recovering overachiever. Im recovering not from the drive to excel but from the anxiety inherent to wondering if anything I achieve will ever be enough. And folks, its a struggle.The philosophy Byung-Chul Han describes this anxiety